Author: Amir Ban
Date: 22:35:41 07/27/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 21:29:35, Ed Schröder wrote: >>>>Wish we knew more about why he adopted a more open and "normal" >>>>style of play against Rebel, while simply strangling Fritz... > >>>Remember "anti-GM"? > >>>Perhaps Anand was forced too? > >>>- Ed - > >>Nice marketing. :) > >>But anti-GM didn't make him castle queen-side in the first long game. He >>did that on his own. I don't think an "anti-GM" strategy exists, much less >>one that can force a GM to do something he doesn't want to do... > >Why should Anand play moves that are not optimal in his opinion? >Quite dangerous IMO. > >I think you should re-read the goals of anti-GM, the why's, its birth. > >In the past at AEGON I have seen Rebel losing against grandmasters >without any chance. After such a game it is very frustrating to realize >your program didn't have just ONE little chance on counter play. > >anti-GM is about to deal with this problem. I don't know how good it is >as 8 games is not much but in most of the 8 games it was Rebel who >took the initiative which pleased me very much as this exactly is one >of the goals of anti-GM. > >- Ed - Ok, but you are not showing us how, where and why. There's a difference between the two games. In the second game, the queen maneuver put Anand under a lot of pressure. Anand found an imaginative solution, which was I think very much on the gambling side. Good play, bad result. The first game, looks like Anand just played a weak game. How to explain 28.e4? and 29.Ka1? ? Not Rebel's fault of course, but what did Rebel do to deserve such favours ? Bad play, good result (for Anand). This is not a game of the calibre of DB-Kasparov game 2. Kasparov played like a GM there, and DB had to earn the positions it reached. From my experience, and from yours too I think, you expect a higher level of opposition. Amir
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